For Oracle vNICs and vHBAs to be available for your version of ESXi operating system, you must inject the host drivers into the native ESXi OS. This process is called creating a remastered ISO.
Before creating the remastered ISO, consider the following:
You must have a Windows server capable of supporting Microsoft Windows PowerShell.
Creating the remastered ISO occurs through the VMware vSphere plug-in for Microsoft Windows PowerShell. The Windows server must have this tool installed on it.
Creating a remastered ISO for ESXi 5.x or ESXi 6.0 hosts is supported only on a Windows server running the plug-in. The Windows server's requirements are determined by the version of PowerShell.
You must use a preconfigured ESXi bundle as a baseline, which is available from VMware's web site. Then, inject the bits into that bundle.
You must have full administrator rights on the Windows server where you are creating the remastered ISO.
These topics describe the procedure to create a remastered ISO.